Bio/Description

Award winning mixing engineer, music producer, and recording engineer. Degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University Of Illinois. Got started in custom WordPress plugin programming when trying to rework the web site for my son’s school PTA organization.

Interests

Music,Recording,Mixing,Programming,Bicycling

WordPress Origin Story

I made my way back to programming in 2012 when I volunteered to be the webmaster for my son’s school PTA web site. The site was in desperate need of a major overhaul, and I was looking for a solution that would allow the various PTA volunteers (i.e., other parents) the ability to easily update their own program pages, and do things like create volunteer sign-up sheets, without having to send requests to the webmaster and wait for them to find the time to make the changes. WordPress seemed like it would be the perfect platform for this with it’s easy page/post editing and the huge variety of themes and plugins available.

Unfortunately, after many weeks of searching, I couldn’t find any plugins that fit all of our needs exactly. So, I decided to brush off my programming skills and spent the summer learning all about the inner workings of WordPress and the PHP/MySQL code behind it. By the end of the summer, I had a pretty elaborate PTA Manager system ready to go. The 2013/2014 school year was the real world test for the code, which was refined with feedback and suggestions from other PTA volunteers during the year.

Two plugins were segregated from the system and made more generic to be useful to a larger range of people and released for free at WordPress.org as my way of helping out other volunteer organizations.

Posted a reply to Move to new site, on the site WordPress.org Forums:Sheets, Tasks, and Signups are stored in custom tables in your WordPress database. Use something…

2 weeks ago

Posted a reply to Possible to have link to clear spot on confirmation email?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:My version split off from that other version at least 5 or 6 years ago,…

2 weeks ago

Posted a reply to Plugin not accessable, on the site WordPress.org Forums:Signup Sheets Pro is not my plugin, but it may be from the same company…

3 weeks ago

Posted a reply to “live search” JS error, on the site WordPress.org Forums:Sorry, never got any notification of this support topic... probably because my email system filters…

4 weeks ago

Posted a reply to Update plugin, on the site WordPress.org Forums:Are you able to see any update notices from plugins hosted here on WordPress.org? Sounds…

4 weeks ago

Posted a reply to Will this work under PHP 7.0 and above?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:Yes, my own dev system, is using PHP 7.0.8, and everything works fine.

1 month ago

Posted a reply to BUG: Copy Sheet runs 2 Times, on the site WordPress.org Forums:Doesn't work that way, you can't just remove it like that. It has to be…

2 months ago

Posted a reply to BUG: Copy Sheet runs 2 Times, on the site WordPress.org Forums:For now, if you just click on the "All Sheets" submenu item after copying a…

2 months ago

Posted a reply to Admin All Sheets – Missing Searchbox?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:This is a feature request, not a bug or anything "missing". The Sign Up Sheets…

2 months ago

Posted a reply to BUG: Copy Sheet runs 2 Times, on the site WordPress.org Forums:I believe you have some sort of conflict or something wrong with your system. The…

2 months ago

Posted a reply to updates?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:No updates needed. Still works just fine with latest version of WordPress.

2 months ago

Posted a reply to Remove “embed” box and link?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:My plugin doesn't create any output with that text, nor any type of iFrame. Some…

2 months ago

Posted a reply to Event Chair not showing when Position dropdown used, on the site WordPress.org Forums:Options/settings are not reset during updates, so your settings should always be maintained when you…

3 months ago

Posted a reply to Event Chair not showing when Position dropdown used, on the site WordPress.org Forums:Working just fine here with latest versions of everything, and latest WordPress. Make sure you…

3 months ago

Posted a reply to Location search, on the site WordPress.org Forums:No.

Posted a reply to Take too long to signup other people, on the site WordPress.org Forums:=)

3 months ago

Posted a reply to Take too long to signup other people, on the site WordPress.org Forums:I'm assuming you and the sheet admin failed to read the documentation? As well as…

3 months ago

Posted a reply to Export to CSV, on the site WordPress.org Forums:Feel free to add your feature request to the big list: https://stephensherrardplugins.com/support/forum/feature-requests/pta-volunteer-sign-up-sheet-feature-requests/ Also, read this:…

4 months ago

Posted a reply to Export to CSV, on the site WordPress.org Forums:I apologize for any confusion. I probably need to update the documentation and add a…

4 months ago

Posted a reply to Moving a single event to a recurring event., on the site WordPress.org Forums:Without trying to get into too many technical details, that option to move tasks to…

4 months ago

Posted a reply to Moving a single event to a recurring event., on the site WordPress.org Forums:Have you tried reading the documentation? https://stephensherrardplugins.com/docs/pta-volunteer-sign-up-sheets-documentation/ I do not understand what you are trying…

Posted a reply to Thanks, on the site WordPress.org Forums:It's flexible. If you use the standard shortcode with no arguments, all the sheets will…

6 months ago

Posted a reply to Admins cannot modify records, on the site WordPress.org Forums:Also, this is the wrong forum (just noticed). You are asking about member directory plugin…

6 months ago

Posted a reply to Template tag for volunteer email?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:There is already a tag for phone, which shows the volunteer's phone #. There is…

6 months ago

Posted a reply to Cannot set the Option to limit access to Contributor, on the site WordPress.org Forums:Looks like that's a bug. Surprised nobody else has discovered that. Haven't updated this for…

6 months ago

Posted a reply to Suppress chair notification on ONE sheet only, on the site WordPress.org Forums:Hi Kym, Thanks for checking the documentation and forum first. You are correct in that…

7 months ago

Posted a reply to Keep the “Program/Event Details (optional):” field visible after date has past., on the site WordPress.org Forums:Not currently possible with the free plugin. However, the calendar extension will show past events.…

7 months ago

Posted a reply to Admins cannot modify records, on the site WordPress.org Forums:Also, I know that multisites can be a bit tricky with the different types of…

7 months ago

Posted a reply to Admins cannot modify records, on the site WordPress.org Forums:It could be something to do with multisite, as I do not believe I ever…

7 months ago

Posted a reply to Admins cannot modify records, on the site WordPress.org Forums:Have you read the documentation? https://stephensherrardplugins.com/docs/pta-member-directory-contact-form-documentation/ There is no front-end editing of the member directory,…

7 months ago

Posted a reply to Error Sending Email, on the site WordPress.org Forums:Did you read this thread on my site: https://stephensherrardplugins.com/support/topic/error-sending-email/ Really not much I can do,…

7 months ago

Posted a reply to Open Places, on the site WordPress.org Forums:The math is working just fine here, and nobody else has reported anything similar happening.…